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As Russia attacks Ukraine, China eyes Indo-
Pacific: Australian intelligence
A “troubling new strategic convergence” between Beijing and Moscow has developed
and the risk of “major power conflict” had grown since Russia invaded Ukraine,
Australia’s intelligence chief said
A “troubling new strategic convergence” between Beijing and
Moscow has developed and the risk of “major power conflict” had
grown since Russia invaded Ukraine, Australia’s intelligence chief
said on Wednesday. Andrew Shearer, director general of the
Office of National Intelligence, said China’s President Xi Jinping
appears to be planning to dominate the Indo-Pacific region and
use it as a base to overtake the United States as the world’s
leading power.
The comments reinforce warnings that the Russian invasion of
Ukraine, which has met near-universal condemnation by the West,
may spread into a regional or global conflict. This week Australian
Prime Minister called on liberal democracies to stop an “arc of
autocracy” reshaping the world.
“We’re going to have to work much harder to maintain the liberal
quality of the rules-based order in Europe and here in the Indo-
Pacific region,” Shearer said at a conference hosted by the
Australian Financial Review. “We see a leader who’s really
battening down and hardening his country for this struggle to
overtake the United States as the world’s leading power,” he
added, referring to Xi. “The base camp … is to establish primacy
in the Indo-Pacific region.”…Russia Ukraine Conflict